2016 Emails Between Wilshire Center BID And The City Of LA or Tara Devine

Subject: Re: RFK Community Schools - Public Park

From: Yoomee Ha

Date: 03/09/201 6 07:25 PM

To: Wilshire Center BID

Hi Mike,

Good to hear from you. Let me discuss this with my colleague in city services. I will reach out to him next week as I am
finishing up a project this week.

Please feel free to follow up with me at the end of next week if I don't get back to you.

Yoomee

On Wed, Mar 9, 201 6 at 1 1 :30 AM, Wilshire Center BID <mike@wilshirecenter.com> wrote:

Hi Yoomee,

I hope you are doing well.

I met with Larry Watts & John Guevara with People For Parks, the non-profit organization working to get schools opened
up to be used as community parks all over Los Angeles. They have an MOU with LAUSD.

Most recently they have opened Berendo MS and Leo Politi ES for 4 hours on Saturday’s. The cost to open it for 4 hours
once a week is $6,000 a year.

We are working on the idea of opening up the RFK Community Schools front lawns (on Wilshire) on Saturday and Sunday
to be used as a community park.

The cost to open it one day a week on Saturday for a year is $1 2,000. The cost to do it for the two days on Saturday and
Sunday for year is $20,000. That covers site supervision and custodial.

The Wilshire Center Business Improvement District will contribute some funds and we will be doing community fundraising
in the near future for the rest.

Please let me know what you think about this idea and if this is something that you as part of the Mayors office can be
involved with starting that converstaion.

Thank you,

Mike Russell

Wilshire Center Business Improvement Corporation (WCBIC)
mike@wilshirecenter.com

www.wilshirecenter.com

facebook.com/wilshirecenter

213-487-7003

3600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1 032
Los Angeles, CA 9001 0

Yoomee Ha

Central Area Representative

Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

(213) 978-0430